FOG Project Alternatives and Similar Software

Clonezilla

Clonezilla is a free software disaster recovery, disk cloning and deployment solution. You're probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton Ghost®. The problem with these kind of software packages is that it takes a lot of time to massively clone systems to many computers. You've probably also heard of Symantec's solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition® with multicasting.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Macrium Reflect

Protect your data, upgrade your hard disk or try new operating systems in the safe knowledge that everything is securely saved in an easily recovered backup file. Macrium Reflect supports backup to local, network and USB drives.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows

Rollback Rx

RollBack Rx client is a robust system restore utility that enables home users and IT professionals to easily restore a PC to a time before certain events occurred. RollBack Rx makes it easy for users of all skill levels to quickly and easily repair PC issues - saving time, money and PC trouble. This solution is especially useful in the case of a situation where you cannot get into Windows.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows

Carbon Copy Cloner

Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) features an interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure very intuitive. In addition to general backup, CCC can also clone one hard drive to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source hard drive. CCCs block-level copy offers the absolute best fidelity in the industry!

Commercial Mac

Redo Backup and Recovery

Open-Source drive imaging solution coming as Linux-based Live CD (or USB thumb drive) that allows for backup and recovery of partitions or entire hard-drives and computers (both Linux and Windows). The solution provides a beginner-friendly and easy to use graphical user interface, automatically finds network shares, includes the web browser Firefox and more.

• Discontinued The project is no longer updated, but it still works. Last version, 1.0.4, released in November 2012, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

Serva 32/64

Serva is an Automated PXE Server Solution Accelerator based on an all-in-one portable multi-server engine including BINL(RIS/WDS), HTTP, FTP, TFTP, DHCP, proxyDHCP, DNS, SNTP and SYSLOG protocols. Serva is a light (~3 MB), yet powerful Microsoft Windows application. It was conceived mainly as an Automated PXE Server Solution Accelerator.

Freemium Windows Windows S

Paragon Backup & Recovery

Paragon Backup & Recovery Free Edition gives you the ability to make a backup of your disk/partition, plus the ability to restore it later. The hot process options using Microsofts VSS technology allow to make backups during working on your Operating System (Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7, ...), similar as with Macrium Reflect Free Edition with Multi Language Support.

Commercial Windows

DriveImage XML

DriveImage XML is a reliable program for easy imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. Image creation uses Microsofts Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe "hot images" even from drives currently in use. For data recovery you need the Runtime Live CD from http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-live-cd.htm . The Runtime Live CD is ready-to-use and preinstalled with all data recovery tools.

Free Personal Windows

HDclone

HDClone creates physical or logical copies (clones) and file images of hard disks and other mass storage media. HDClone is a perfect tool for backups and copies of entire software or operating system installations. A special SafeRescue mode makes HDClone an invaluable tool for rescuing defective hard disks and other media. HDClone works independent of partitioning scheme, file system, and operating system. It also works with proprietary formats which otherwise would be unaccessible.

• It doesn't function as a PXE boot server. Guest • Nov 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Freemium Windows

O&O DiskImage

Prevent data loss easily and securely! With O&O DiskImage you can create images of your entire computer or individual partitions during operation. If data loss occurs, your imaged data (files, folders, partitions) will be available to you in no time with just a few clicks - even if Windows cannot be started anymore!

Commercial Windows

SuperDuper!

SuperDuper makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and its built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically.

Freemium Mac

FSArchiver

FSArchiver is a system tool that allows you to save the contents of a file system to a compressed archive file. The file system can be restored on a partition which has a different size and it can be restored on a different file system. Unlike tar/dar, FSArchiver also creates the file system when it extracts the data to partitions. Everything is checksummed in the archive in order to protect the data. If the archive is corrupt, you just loose the current file, not the whole archive.

Free Open Source Linux

SmartDeploy

SmartDeploy is a leading provider of modern endpoint management solutions. With a flexible layered architecture, IT can achieve centralized, single-image management to support 50 - 50,000 endpoints. SmartDeploys award-winning technology combines the best of progressive solutions like SCCM, centralized solutions like VDI and legacy imaging solutions like Ghost, without the common drawbacks. More than 3,000 organizations trust SmartDeploy to deploy and manage their end user devices.

Commercial $ $ $ Windows

FarStone RestoreIT

RestoreIT® 7 is based on FarStone's patented "Advanced System Restore " technology. RestoreIT® 7 is a new, and powerful, innovation designed to recover your entire PC in 60 seconds for an effortless recovery from any disaster. RestoreIT® 7 enables you to instantly recover files, system configurations - even an operating system - by literally taking a snapshot of your system.

Commercial Windows

ERPXE

ERPXE project simplifies the process of installing and customizing a Multi-Boot PXE server. http://erpxe.com .

• Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 1.2, released in September 2013, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

Free Open Source Linux

XXClone

XXCloneE copies the whole Windows NT, 2000, or XP system volume to another disk that will be ready to boot without a restore step. You may boot the system from the clone volume when disaster strikes. Need not go to the DOS mode. Operates in regular Windows environment. Periodic backup, disk upgrade, or migration takes a long time with the free version. Extremely easy to use. The cloned volume may be of any size as long as the volume data can fit. It can copy from FAT to NTFS or vice versa.

• Discontinued After the passing of Pixelab's director and operator, the company ceased business operations in March 2017. The development and support of its products, including Datman, XXCopy, and XXClone, has been discontinued. Last version of XXClone, 2.08.8, released in January 2017, can be still downloaded from the Wayback Machine.

Free Personal Windows

Seagate DiskWizard

Based on Acronis True image with limited functionality. Seagate DiscWizard works with Maxtor and Seagate disc drives. The software lets you quickly install your new disc drive with wizards that guide you through the processes of creating and formatting partitions on your disc drive, transferring data, and backing up your data.

Freemium Windows

R-Drive Image

R-Drive Image is a potent utility providing disk image files creation for backup or duplication purposes. A disk image file contains the exact, byte-by-byte copy of a hard drive, partition or logical disk and can be created with various compression levels on the fly without stopping Windows OS and therefore without interrupting your business. These drive image files can then be stored in a variety of places, including various removable media such as CD-R(W)/DVD, Iomega Zip or Jazz disks, etc.

Commercial Windows

Active@ Disk Image

Active@ Disk Image is a disk image software that can do a backup as well as clone the full hard drive. A backup image may be stored on a USB drive, network storage, burned directly to CD/DVD/BR discs, or kept on any other media.

Freemium Windows

ImageX

ImageX is a command-line tool that enables original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and corporations to capture, to modify, and to apply file-based disk images for rapid deployment. ImageX works with Windows image (.wim) files for copying to a network, or it can work with other technologies that use .wim images, such as Windows Setup, Windows Deployment Services (Windows DS), and the System Management Server (SMS) Operating System Feature Deployment Pack.

Free Windows

Image for Windows (Image for Linux)

Image for Windows is an affordable and reliable drive image backup and restore solution that provides an easy and convenient way to completely backup all your hard drive's data, programs and operating systems. Your backups can be saved directly to external USB and FireWire drives, to internal or network drives, and even directly to CD, DVD, or BD. The Image for Windows package includes an easy-to-use MakeDisk wizard for creating a recovery boot disk.

Commercial Windows Linux

HDClone Free Edition

The Free Edition of HDClone is the ideal tool for cloning, migrating and imaging contents of internal/mobile hard disks, SSD and USB media. Since it works on physical level it can be used with any operating system and any filesystem. HDClone copies the data for you. This allows you to transfer entire system installations to a newer hard disk quickly and easily (hard disk migration) and to do backups. It also adds the additional disk space automatically if desired.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows Linux

BackupChain

BackupChain Backup Software backs up your system, virtual machines, and databases while running. Run backups locally, remotely, and off-site via FTP with this professional backup utility. Includes FTP server.

Commercial Windows

Acronis Snap Deploy

For disaster recovery and system migration in both physical and virtual environments, Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows delivers greater flexibility and value for SMBs and the Remote Office / Branch Office.

Commercial $ $ $ Windows

PING

PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost) is a free software Linux-based live CD ISO built upon the partimage and Linux from Scratch (LFS) projects for disk cloning or backup purposes. The software supports most hardware platforms using ATA, SATA, or SCSI systems for desktop computers, workstations, and servers. It can access file systems using FAT16, FAT32, NTFS or ext3 format. Since PING is built upon LFS, it is very small in size.

Free Linux